Salvu Mallia speaks from his heart – PN

The Nationalist Party has defended controversial candidate's Salvu Mallia's outbursts, saying he spoke "from his heart"" to convey his "outrage" against the Labour government. Times of Malta sought the party's reaction to Mr Mallia's latest Facebook remarks in which he again resorted to colourful language to respond to his critics. The TV-presenter-turned-candidate was reacting to the criticism levelled against him in the wake of his views on euthan­asia and abortion, which he expressed in an interview with The Sunday Times of Malta last weekend. Noting that Mr Mallia was on the PN ticket to join the "coalition against corruption" spearheaded by Opposition leader Simon Busuttil, a party spokesman said Mr Mallia felt "cheated" by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. "He [Salvu Mallia] is furious that our country has been taken over by a corrupt gang in Castille. So his sentiment is more than understandable," the spokesman said. "He certainly speaks from the heart, and if he chooses to use colourful language to do so, it's only because he is outraged at what he is seeing," he added. Referring to what he termed as the PN's fight against "the most corrupt government" ever, the spokesman...

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